Topic: Microsoft
Microsoft has increasingly integrated cloud services and online account requirements into its products, raising concerns about user privacy and data security. The company’s practices, including the collection of personal data and compliance with government surveillance requests, highlight the risks of centralized control over user information. As Microsoft continues to push for features like facial recognition and online activations, the implications for individual liberty and free expression become more pronounced.
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Microsoft Decided Your Windows Settings Belong in Its Cloud
Microsoft turns Windows Backup on by default in Windows 11 26H2, sending your settings and Store apps to the cloud.
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EU Parliament Revives Chat Surveillance for Thursday Vote
Killing the regime needs an absolute majority and depends on who bothers to stay through the final sitting before the…
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Days Away: The TAKE IT DOWN Act Creates a Censorship Mechanism With No Safeguards
The law Congress unanimously passed to fight revenge porn also handed anyone with an internet connection and a grudge a…
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The Opt-Out Button Is Decorative: A Guide to Hardening Your Browser
The opt-out button you’ve been clicking is decorative, so here is the browser build that stops asking nicely.
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Xbox Now Wants Your Face to Let You Play Games You Already Own in Singapore
Microsoft wants your face, your passport, or your national ID, just to keep playing the games sitting on your account.
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Microsoft Copilot Health Centralizes Personal Medical Records
Microsoft built a product that knows your cholesterol levels, your step count, and your last hospital visit and faces none…
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Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links
Microsoft’s new “context preservation” keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft’s browser engine,…
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How to Keep Your Encryption Keys Out of Big Tech’s Hands
True security starts where convenience ends, by keeping your encryption keys off the cloud and in your own hands.
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FBI Accessed Encrypted PCs Using Microsoft Recovery Keys
The case exposes how convenience in cloud security quietly redefines who truly owns digital privacy.
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Microsoft Shifts All Activations to Online Accounts
A simple software setup has become another checkpoint in Microsoft’s expanding web of identity and control.
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UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification
The UK flirts with an extreme future where every device is surveilled.
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Porn Giant Calls For Device-Based Digital ID
The promise of privacy hides a blueprint for deeper platform control.